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> Better in the way that western civilization (with America leading the way) has been built on hierarchies. Despite that that is an incorrect statement (it has been addressed by co…

Interesting, in Swedish we have two (main) words too. The most common word, avundsjuk , even though it has sjuk in it (meaning sick or ill), doesn't necessarily have to be negative…

I agree, fairness != equality. While I'm a great believer in fairness, the problem with it is that it opens up to arbitration. What I consider fair may not be what you consider fai…

> not being envious of anyone, equalises everyone. This is a very 1st world sentiment. If you live on less than $1/day, you are not equalized even if you're too hungry to feel any …

> I'm of the opinion that egalitarianism is not a desirable outcome. Hierarchies [...] are much more preferable and have demonstrated to be the better pick for humanity. Better in …

> "For while a particularly spectacular kill was always cause for celebration, the hunter responsible was insulted rather than flattered." This seems to have the same purpose as th…

This. I studied German for six years in school and have yet to complete a successful conversation. I worked as a volunteer in a children's home in Thailand for a couple of months a…

> 'not one of your long answers, though dad' I get this a lot too. My 8 yr old daughter frequently tells me she just wants the answer.

> having access to iPad helped my daughter to learn way more than I thought she could at that age (e. g. English names for colors; count in English and the alphabet song — before s…

I recently returned from a trip to the USA and was a bit surprised that they asked for ZIP code instead of PIN for my credit card. While the NY subway accepted my non-US ZIP code, …

Det är lättare att be om förlåtelse än om tillåtelse.

In Sweden we incinerate[1] the trash in super hot ovens and use the resulting heat to heat our homes. We do recycle as well but as we sometimes even import trash to burn (it's a co…

We had a flight once where they had assigned my then six year old daughter to a seat on a separate row from the rest of us (me, wife and son) so naturally my wife took that seat an…

+1 for GDPR!

The IT Crowd's take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZTvMYQSl_w

On a related note I've found it's easier to get your way with e.g. your manager if you say "I will do this!" rather than "Can I do this?" This probably have to do with that in the …

Still it's easier and more pleasant to maintain that state of mind not sitting inside a cubicle with a boss yelling at you to work harder.

But with AGA chipset the Amiga got chunky pixels (e.g. write palette index to the framebuffer as in VGA).

The issue isn't that you could break most any padlock using heavy duty tools, the issue is that you can break any Tapplock without arousing suspicion. Consider using it for your gy…

While true in many cases, in my experience it's not only the engineers. Unless you have the senior managers on board as well, they'll just lean on the engineers to "ship now".

> “Invincible to the people who do not have a screwdriver” or a mobile phone.. or access to the Internet..

> But on the other hand, people with really low expectations are usually not super happy when something turns out better than expected I don't know, in my experience having high ex…

There's science to prove you wrong [1]. [1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/joop.12031

There's a difference between the measurement "how much homework a student have" and the measurement "how much parents help with children's homework". The article is about the latte…

> I mean, really, who is naive enough to take random legal advice from strangers? Having recently read some stories over at darwinawards.com, I can think of quite a few people who …